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Captured from the former Afghan National Army. [2] PSL: Romania: Designated marksman rifle: Unknown number in service captured from the former Afghan National Army. [3] Machine guns; M249 SAW United States: Light machine gun: Unknown number in service captured from former Afghan National Army. [7] RPD Soviet Union: Light machine gun [4] RPK ...
On December 23, 2007, Canadian media reported that the Canadian Forces would supply the Afghan National Army with 2,500 surplus Colt Canada C7 rifles (a Canadian variant of the M16), along with training and ammunition in order to Westernise Afghan equipment. In June 2011, the Afghan National Army returned the loaned C7 rifles as the ANA ...
First supplied to Afghanistan on Lenin's orders in 1919 [5] Submachine gun; Heckler & Koch MP5SD West Germany: Submachine gun: Unknown number ordered from West Germany prior to the Saur Revolution. Used by Hafizullah Amin's security detail in Storm-333. [6] PPSh-41 [3] Soviet Union: Submachine gun: Phased out by 1980, were handed out to ...
The Afghan Armed Forces, officially the Armed Forces of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (Pashto: د اسلامي امارت وسله وال ځواکونه, Dari: نیروهای مسلح امارت اسلامی افغانستان) [3] and also referred to as the Islamic Emirate Armed Forces, is the military of Afghanistan, commanded by the Taliban government from 1997 to 2001 and since ...
Pages in category "Military equipment of Afghanistan" ... List of equipment of the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan; A.
In 1985, during the Panjshir offensives, corpses of Afghan Army troops, as well as the corpses of PDPA party members, ordinary people, and parents who allowed their sons to join the Afghan Armed Forces, were discovered by the Soviet Army and detachments of Afghan paratroopers in Panjshir, more specifically in the “Safed-Chi” gorge. The ...
The Islamic National Army (Pashto: اسلامي ملي اردو, Islāmī Milli Urdu), [2] [3] [4] also referred to as the Islamic Emirate Army and the Afghan Army, is the land force branch of the Afghan Armed Forces. The roots of an army in Afghanistan can be traced back to the early 18th century when the Hotak dynasty was established in ...
This list shows military equipment used by the mujahideen during the Soviet–Afghan War.The Mujahideen obtained weapons from many sources, mostly supplied by foreign sources, such as the Central Intelligence Agency’s Operation Cyclone, China, Egypt, Iran, Israel and the United Kingdom, and channeled through Pakistan.